Saburo Aizawa

Saburo Aizawa (6 September 1889-3 July 1936) was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Imperial Japanese Army and the assassin of Tetsuzan Nagata in the "Aizawa Incident" of August 1935.

Biography
Saburo Aizawa was born on 6 September 1889 in Iwate Prefecture, Japan and joined the Imperial Japanese Army in 1910. By 1935 he had risen to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in  the Japanese 41st Infantry Regiment, and he was a member of the Kodoha faction of the army. In 1935, Aizawa assassinated Toseiha faction leader Tetsuzan Nagata with a katana after claiming that he had left the military "in the paws of high finance", and he was wounded in the left hand. Aizawa was executed by firing squad on 3 July 1936 for the murder.